There is nothing REMARKABLE about having media and foreign embassy contacts. When I lived in SAUDI Arabia as a journalist, this was a regular occurrence.
We go through periods of turmoil in our NATION's HISTORY, and one of the remarkable things about the United STATES is that we seem to keep MAKING our way through those periods.
When I was still a bright-eyed McKinsey consultant, I remember hitting a POINT where I didn't KNOW what to do next, and someone gave me the BOOK, 'How Remarkable Women LEAD,' and I read it and scribbled in it, and it felt like a GUIDE in helping me figure out my career.
RAP is LIKE any other genre: There are the people who are very creative with it and do REMARKABLE things... and then there's that whole quadrant that SOUNDS alike. There's GREAT stuff that's taken the genre to a new level over the years, and 'Regulate' was one of those tracks that was kind of a landmark.
One of the remarkable things about slums is that they do develop their own social ORGANIZATION and ECONOMY and even CULTURE that is, on some LEVEL, functional and in some CASES, remarkably resilient. This is kind of amazing.